Collections / #77330: Press for Religious Freedom Byway

5 Items in Collection

  • Much as it looked like when the church was founded in 1641, the view from St. Ignatius Church and St. Thomas Manor, from the 120-foot bluff, overlooks the mouth of the Port Tobacco River and the various headstones in the church graveyard.
  • Aboard a sailing vessel, actors and actresses in period costumes recount maritime tales, sing chanteys, and engage visitors in hands-on activities.
  • A gentle spring green dusts the tree-lined canopy of the Nanjemoy loop, an ideal low-volume road for bicycling interspersed with views of the Potomac.
  • The Episcopal Church steeple glows eerily white against a dusk blue sky, which highlights the church's Georgian or ‘Church Warden’ architecture. The Church was built in 1736 on land donated by Francis Scott Keys' grandfather.
  • Over the wire fence, St. Ignatius Church attracts a group of people who are interested in the building's stained glass windows and one of the oldest cemeteries in America.


The View from St. Ignatius Church/St. Thomas Manor at Chapel Point

Much as it looked like when the church was founded in 1641, the view from St. Ignatius Church and St. Thomas Manor, from the 120-foot bluff, overlooks the mouth of the Port Tobacco River and the various headstones in the church graveyard.

Public domain. Photograph by Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects, P.C.